History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Great souls are harmonious.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.